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Notice of Change in Degree to Be Conferred on Students Enrolling in April 2027 or Later

The current Ph.D. Program in Humanics will merge with the Doctoral Program in Human Biology in April 2027 and transition to the Doctoral Program in Humanics, Graduate School of Integrative and Global Multidisciplinary Arena (G-SIGMA).

Unlike the current Ph.D. Program in Humanics, the Doctoral Program in Humanics, G-SIGMA will award the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

In the Ph.D. Program in Humanics (Five-year Doctoral Program, University of Tsukuba), students earn Ph.D. degree through the “Double Mentor System”, in which faculty members from both biomedical sciences and physical sciences/engineering/informatics initiate a research collaboration to provide guidance to students.

The doctoral degree to be received is shown in the column of each mentor.

If you wish to choose a faculty member who is not in this list as your sub-mentor, please be sure to consult with the SIGMA office in advance before applying. Please note that we may not be able to meet your request if there is no prior consultation.

University of Tsukuba

Biomedical sciences

YANAGISAWA Masashi
[Affiliation]　
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
[Job title]　
Professor/Director
[Specialized fields]　
Neuroscience of sleep
SAKURAI Takeshi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular Behavioral Physiology
Michael Lazarus
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Systems Sleep Biology
OISHI Yo
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neurobehavioral Biology
HONJOH Sakiko
[Affiliation]　
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
[Job title]　
Assistant Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neuroscience of sleep
HIRANO Arisa
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Assistant professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neuroscience of sleep
ABE Takashi
[Affiliation]　
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
[Job title]　
Associate professor
[Specialized fields]　
Human sleep science
KOBAYASHI Satoru
[Affiliation]　
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA)
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Developmental biology
NOMURA Nobuhiko
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Bacterial cell-cell communication and bacterial biofilm
YANAGISAWA Hiromi
[Affiliation]　
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA)
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Vascular matrix biology
SHIMADA Yuko
[Affiliation]　
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA)
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Developmental biology
TAKAHASHI Satoru
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Anatomy and Embryology
KAWAGUCHI Atsushi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Infection Biology
MURATANI Masafumi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Genome Biology
SAKAE Takeji
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Medical Physics
IRIE Kenji
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular Cell Biology
OHNEDA Osamu
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Stem cell biology
MASU Masayuki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular Neurobiology
ISOBE Tomonori
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Radiation Health Risk Science
NOGUCHI Emiko
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Medical Genetics
SHIBUYA Kazuko
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Immunology
SAKATA-YANAGIMOTO Mamiko
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Hematology-Oncology
OSHIKA Tetsuro
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Ophthalmology
HASHIMOTO Koichi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Clinical and Translational Research
MATSUZAKA Takashi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Metabolism, Lipid Biology
WAGATSUMA Yukiko
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Clinical epidemiology
SHIGEMORI Hideyuki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Natural Products Chemistry
CHIBA Tomoki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular cell biology
ISHIKAWA Kaori
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular cell biology
NIWA Ryusuke
[Affiliation]　
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA)
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Physiological genetics
Kaspar Vogt
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neurophysiology
SAKURAI Katsuyasu
[Affiliation]　
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neuroscience of adaptation
TSURUTA Fuminori
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
[Job title]　
Assistant Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular neurobiology
KOGANEZAWA Tadachika
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neurophysiology
KUNIMATSU Jun
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Assistant Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Systems Neuroscience
KIMURA Kenichi
[Affiliation]　
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA)
[Job title]　
Assistant Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Vascular matrix biology
HADA Yasushi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Rehabilitation Medicine
NAKAJIMA Shun
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine/ Tsukuba Institute for Advanced Research (TAIR)/ International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Clinical psychology
SHICHINO Yuichi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
RNA Biochemistry
Chigusa Nakahashi-Oda
[Affiliation]　
Faculty of medicine
[Job title]　
Associate professor
[Specialized fields]　
Immunology
KOBAYASHI Makoto
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular and Developmental Biology
Matsumoto Isao
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Department of Rheumatology
SUDA Yasuyuki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular Cell Biology
MIZUNO Seiya
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Laboratory Animal Science
NISHIMURA Ken
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Stem cell biotechnology, Viral engineering
FUJITA Ryo
[Affiliation]　
Division of Regenerative Medicine, Transborder Medical Research Center, Institute of Medicne, University of Tsukuba
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Regenerative Medicine, Muscle Biology, Stem Cell Biology
MORIKAWA Kazuya
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Bacteriology
SEKIYA Motohiro
[Affiliation]　
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Endocrinology and Metabolism

Physical sciences/engineering/informatics

SANKAI Yoshiyuki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering/Center for Cybernics Research/F-MIRAI Center
[Job title]　
Professor/Executive Research Director/Director
[Specialized fields]　
Cybernics
SUZUKI Kenji
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering/Center for Cybernics Research
[Job title]　
Professor/Executive Officer
[Specialized fields]　
Cybernics & Artificial Intelligence
KAWAMOTO Hiroaki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering/Center for Cybernics Research
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Cybernics, Integration between Human and Machine
AMAGASA Toshiyuki
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Data Engineering
SHIOKAWA Hiroaki
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Database System
HORIE Kazumasa
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Assistant Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Intelligent informatics
KAMEDA Yoshinari
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computational media
KITAHARA Itaru
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computational Media
TATEBE Osamu
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computer Science
KUTSUMURA Noriki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Medicinal Chemistry & Organic Synthetic Chemistry
HARADA Ryuhei
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Associate professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computational Biophysics
SAKURAI Tetsuya
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Numerical Analysis
IMAKURA Akira
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering/Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR)
[Job title]　
Associate professor
[Specialized fields]　
Numerical analysis & machine learning
KUDO Hiroyuki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Medical Imaging and Image Processing
TAKIZAWA Hotaka
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Intelligent Image Processing
ITOH Makoto
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Human Factors
NOBUHARA Hajime
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computational Intelligence
MORIKUNI Keiichi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Assistant Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Numerical linear algebra
IZAWA Jun
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computational Neuroscience
IWASAKI Kenji
[Affiliation]　
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA)
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Structural Biology and Chemistry
SANUKI Masaru
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Applied Math./Educational Informatics/Medical AI
MORISHIMA Atsuyuki
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Library, Information and Media Science
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Human-in-the-loop Big Data & AI
HIROKAWA Takatsugu
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Chemical biology and In silico drug design
KURODA Yoshihiro
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering/Center for Cybernics Research
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Cybernics & Biology Systems Engineering
TSURUGIZAWA Tomokazu
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
MRI Medical Physics
SAITOH Tsuyoshi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Medicinal Chemistry/Chemical Biology
CHEN Guoping
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Materials Science and Engineering
KAWAKAMI Kohsaku
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Physical Pharmacy
EBARA Mitsuhiro
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Smart polymers
SHI Shoi
[Affiliation]　
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Comparative neuroscience
YE Xiucai
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Machine learning・Bioinformatics
Zempo Keiichi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
[Job title]　
Associate Professor
[Specialized fields]　
IWAGAMI Masao
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Digital Health
SHIGETA Yasuteru
[Affiliation]　
Center for Computational Sciences
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Computational Sciences

Corporation/Institute

Biomedical sciences

SATO Taka-Aki
[Affiliation]　
R&D Center for Precision Medicine
[Job title]　
Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors) / Director (Specially Appointed Professor)
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular oncology

Physical sciences/engineering/informatics

TATENO Hiroaki
[Affiliation]　
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST)
[Job title]　
Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors)/Group Leader /Office Manager of AIST
[Specialized fields]　
Glycan engineering
SEITA Jun
[Affiliation]　
RIKEN
[Job title]　
Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors)/Principal Investigator (Team Leader)
[Specialized fields]　
Deep Learning for Medicine
KATOH Kaoru
[Affiliation]　
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST)
[Job title]　
Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors)/Senior Researcher
[Specialized fields]　
Super resolution imaging, Biophysics, Optical microscope
SATO Chikara
[Affiliation]　
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST)
[Job title]　
Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors)
[Specialized fields]　
Electron microscopy
KASUKAWA Takeya
[Affiliation]　
RIKEN
[Job title]　
Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors)/Principal Investigator (Team Leader)
[Specialized fields]　
Biomedical Data Engineering
OZAKI Haruka
[Affiliation]　
RIKEN
[Job title]　
Associate Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors)
[Specialized fields]　
Bioinformatics and Computational biology

Collaboration

Under the Double Mentor System, the following faculty members can only be selected as sub-mentors. Please contact the SIGMA office for details.

Biomedical sciences

HAYASHI Yu
[Affiliation]　
The University of Tokyo
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine(WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba
[Job title]　
Professor/Visiting Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Neuroscience of sleep
ARAKAWA Yoshihiro
[Affiliation]　
Tsukuba Clinical Research & Development Organization(T-CReDO)
[Job title]　
Director
[Specialized fields]　
Translational and Clinical Research
YAMAZAKI Satoshi
[Affiliation]　
The University of Tokyo
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Stem cell biology
Michael Kann
[Affiliation]　
University of Gothenburg/Sahlgrenska University Hospital
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Clinical Virology
Carl-Henrik Heldin
[Affiliation]　
Uppsala University
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Biochemistry, Oncology
Tsai-Kun Li
[Affiliation]　
National Taiwan University
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular and Cellular biology
Peter ten Dijke
[Affiliation]　
Leiden University Medical Center
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Cancer Signaling
Seong-Jin Kim
[Affiliation]　
Research Institute of GILO Foundation
[Job title]　
Director
[Specialized fields]　
Tumor Biology and TGF-β Signaling
Tilo Kunath
[Affiliation]　
The University of Edinburgh
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Regenerative medicine
KAJI Keisuke
[Affiliation]　
The University of Edinburgh
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Biology of Reprogramming
Bernd K. Fleischmann
[Affiliation]　
University of Bonn
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Physiology
Arthur Lander
[Affiliation]　
University of California, Irvine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Systems Biology of Development
YOKOMORI Kyoko
[Affiliation]　
University of California, Irvine
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Molecular Cell and Genome Biology
MATSUMOTO Masayuki
[Affiliation]　
Kyoto University
[Job title]　
Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
YAMAZAKI Masashi
[Affiliation]　
Institute of Medicine
[Job title]　
Visiting Professor
[Specialized fields]　
Orthopaedic Surgery

Example of Humanics research

Biomedical sciences × physical sciences/engineering/informatics enables doctoral research based on joint research that fuses two fields.

Biomedical sciences
  • Integrative Sleep Medicine
  • International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine Professor
  • Masashi Yanagisawa
Physical sciences/engineering/
informatics
  • Next Generation Mobility Technology
  • R&D Center for Frontiers of MIRAI in Policy and Technology Specially Appointed Professor
  • Isamu Takahara
Humanics research
Development of technology to monitor arousal and cognitive function during driving by using IoT
Biomedical sciences
  • Vascular matrix biology
  • Director of Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA) Professor
  • Hiromi Yanagisawa
Physical sciences/engineering/
informatics
  • Smart polymers
  • Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences Professor
  • Mitsuhiro Ebara
Humanics research
Investigation of the role of macrophages in FBN1 mutant mice and development of therapeutic strategy for aortic dissection
Biomedical sciences
  • Spine and Spinal Surgery & Regenerative Medicine
  • Orthopedic Surgery Institute of Medicine Visiting Professor
  • Masashi Yamazaki
Physical sciences/engineering/
informatics
  • Cybernics
  • Dean of the Institute of Systems and Information Engineering Professor
  • Kenji Suzuki
Humanics research
Application of Wearable Cyborg HAL to CNS disease and its gait analysis for each disease
Biomedical sciences
  • Immunology
  • Institute of Medicine Professor
  • Kazuko Shibuya
Physical sciences/engineering/
informatics
  • Glycan engineering
  • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST) Office Manager
  • Hiroaki Tateno
Humanics research
A discovery of the glycan-based drug candidate for atopic dermatitis
Biomedical sciences
  • Neurophysiology
  • Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto University(EHUB) Professor
  • Masayuki Matsumoto
Physical sciences/engineering/
informatics
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Institute of Systems and Information Engineering Professor
  • Jun Izawa
Humanics research
Identify the cerebral neural circuits that make decisions, aiming to realize artificial intelligence that makes decisions using the same mechanism as the brain
Biomedical sciences
  • Neuroscience of sleep
  • International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS) Assistant Professor
  • Sakiko Honjoh
Physical sciences/engineering/
informatics
  • MRI Medical Physics
  • Institute of Systems and Information Engineering Associate Professor
  • Tomokazu Tsurugizawa
Humanics research
Elucidation of functional networks in the whole brain during sleep using the newly developed functional MRI.

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